Sentences with phrase «pressing government ethics»

The matter of prioritization for the bill - signing also underscores questions about the bill being necessary in the first place, but also issue that many took with Cuomo's abandonment of other, more pressing government ethics and campaign finance reform proposals, many of which he had previously claimed to champion.

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Ivanka Trump's new office in the White House was cleared by White House lawyers and the federal government's ethics watchdog, press secretary Spicer said.

They say they will step up efforts to close campaign donation loopholes that benefit politicians and companies, and will press for more independent government ethics monitors and tighter restrictions on Albany's long pay - to - play culture by individuals, groups and corporations with business before the governor or Legislature.

The ethics officials informed Woodstock Times that, pursuant to an opinion from Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, the board would vote to conduct the hearing in an executive session that would be closed to the public, including the press.

The first part, which investigated the culture and ethics of the press, was completed, but earlier this year the government confirmed it would not push ahead with the second part, which was due to focus on relationships between the media and the police.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

The task before her is especially important because of the need for this agency to succeed as an impartial panel charged with oversight and enforcement of our state's new ethics law and the pressing need to restore the public's faith in our government and elected officials.»

He felt that this man was violating the ethics of his profession and so, he wrote a letter that eventually made its way to the foreign press and, you know, almost overnight, you know, really within a matter of weeks, the government backed down and ended the cover - up, fired the minister of health, fired the mayor of Beijing and it was really to me an inspiring example of how one person, you know, who had something to believe in can really change the course of events and the course of history really.

Steven Spielberg has delivered a master class of ethics vs legalities vs political power, touching on not just the responsibilities of all parties, but most crucially on the conflicting objectives of a free press (making money) and the government system (getting elected) it is charged with holding accountable.

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